Lynch misses practice with hip injury

For Week Six, Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch was questionable but officially not injured. But he had missed practice on Friday with a hip injury.

He played against the Titans.

This week, as the Seahawks prepare to face the Cardinals on Thursday night, Lynch has missed practice with a hip injury.

His status for the Week Seven game against the Cardinals isn’t known. Also not practicing were defensive end Chris Clemons (elbow), tackle Breno Giacomini (knee), linebacker Bobby Wagner (ankle), and running back Spencer Ware (ankle).

Marshawn Lynch misses a lot of practice. The offense is built around him and his running style. He knows the system. He will typically rest during the week to prepare for another day of running around with four 300lbs defensive players on his back.

This was commonplace last year. Injury report to get him out of practice all week, then on Sunday (or Monday or Thursday), business as usual.

On the plus side, this is the shortest I’ve seen the injury list since the season started. Knock wood.

And snoqualmieterry, great point. This is not a gimme, this is going to be a tooth-and-nail kind of game against a team that is a very tough out in that dome. There is no such thing as an ugly in-division road win.

Yeah, that hip injury really affected his game last Sunday: against one of the better defenses in the league, Lynch only got into the endzone twice, and only one of his pass receptions went for more than 50 yards.